Word Count

pegasus11

Hey, I need to know how to do a word count. I don't know a function that can do it, but I need one that can take a string and count how many identical expressions there are in it, in my case spaces, anyone know how?

bretticus

Ya know, I coded an ezine not too long ago and had some problems with this very same thing. Supposedly, there's a PHP function for performing this:

str-word-count

But in the version of PHP I was given to use, the function was non-existant. So, I wrote my own jury-rigged solution there, it's the bottom post. If the PHP function doesn't work for you, you might try improving it for yourself. If you have no line breaks, for example, you'll only need to split on spaces don't use the pattern replacing, else you can alter the regex pattern accordingly or just (I missed many punction symbols that I didn't want to be converted to spaces.)

PHPGuru_2700

Try this, it still is k-sensitive but thats easily fixed with the eregi_replace function.

<?
print("<HTML>\n");
print("<HEAD>\n");
print("<TITLE>Tokenizing a sentance</TITLE>\n");
print("</HEAD>\n");
print("<BODY>\n");

$sentance = $_POST["sentance"];
/*
** If submitted a sentance, parse it.
*/
if($sentance != "")
{
 print("<B>Submitted Text:</B>");
 print("$sentance<BR><BR>\n");
 $separators = " ";

 //get each token
 for($token = strtok($sentance, $separators);
  $token;
  $token = strtok($separators))
 {
  // count each word
  $word_count[$token]++;
  $total++;
 }  

 // sort array
 arsort($word_count);

 print("<B>$total Words Found</B>\n");
 print("<UL>\n");

 while(list($key, $value) = each($word_count))
 {
  print("<LI>$key ($value)\n");
 }

 print("</UL>");

}

print("<FORM ACTION=\"Parse.php\" METHOD=\"post\">\n");
print("<INPUT NAME=\"sentance\" SIZE=\"40\">\n");
print("<INPUT TYPE=\"submit\" VALUE=\"parse\">\n");
print("</FORM>\n");
print("</BODY>\n");
print("</HTML>\n");

?>